Webinar on surrogacy motherhood: How do we stop the reproductive trade in women and children?

This spring, alarming pictures from Ukrainian surrogacy clinics have been published in international media. Newborn babies in large numbers screaming for care and that cannot be picked up by foreign customers due to the countries’ closed borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation has revealed the massive exploitation of women and trade in children in the surrogacy industry. Ukraine’s Children’s Ombudsman has called for a ban and compares surrogacy contracts to slavery.

On June 16, The Swedish Women’s Lobby together with The Federation of Social Democratic Women and The Women’s Federation of Centre Party organize a webinar on surrogacy motherhood and how we can work for a ban on all forms of trade in children and women.
Welcome!

Speakers:
• Bronwen Reed, Producer of the documentary Damaged babies broken hearts (tbc)
• Maria Dmytriyeva, Democracy Development Center, Ukraine
• Sheela Saravanan, Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, School of Social
Sciences, University of Hyderabad, author of the book A Transnational
Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India
• Carina Ohlsson, President, The Federation of Social Democratic Women in Sweden
• Helena Vilhelmsson, Vice President, The Women’s Federation of the Centre Party
• Clara Berglund, Secretary General, Swedish Women’s Lobby (moderator)